Susan Tordella's Books

Raising Able

By: Susan Tordella

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Give your children the gift of self-esteem, self-confidence and skills to succeed in life. Learn to empower children to make good decisions when they become teenagers and they're 60 miles away, going 60 miles an hour. Start when they are young by learning the Raising Able Family Management System based on: - family meetings, family chores, family dinner; - the triple e - encouragement, entitlement, empowerment; and - natural and logical consequences. Parents will be calmer and happier and be able to retire from being the house servant. Children will learn skills, time management, and responsibility. They will experience being part of a team and greater self-esteem and self-confidence. Chores counteract entitlement because it's impossible to feel entitled when youngsters clean toilets, sweep floors and rake leaves. Chores cure boredom immediately because there's always more work to be done in a home. This easy-to-read book offers time-tested advice by the mother of four children who has taught many parents the Raising Able Family Management System. The system is useful for typical children AND for special needs children. ADD recommend the Raising Able Family Management system for use with young people with ADD and ADHD.

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ISBN 10

1456600087

ISBN 13

9781456600082

'Can I Borrow the Car?' How to Partner with Your Teen for Safe Driving

By: Susan Boone's Tordella

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'Can I Borrow the Car?' How to Partner with Your Teen for Safe Driving

By: Susan Boone's Tordella

Can I borrow the car' How to partner with your teen for safe driving" is an e-book about how parents can influence teenagers to learn safe driving habits written by Susan Tordella, who taught all four teens how to drive automatic and stick shift vehicles. Susan is also the author of "Raising Able: How chores empower families" where she shares wisdom gleaned from a decade of leading parenting workshops and 25 years of raising four successful children by using Adlerian psychology. The book has two objectives: 1. To share suggestions on how parents can relate positively to their teens so that, 2. Teens will listen to them and follow the safe driving habits and keep them out of accidents. "Can I borrow the car?" gives specific safety habits your teen can use to avoid accidents that are useful and easy to learn, useful for adults and teenage drivers. Susan uses stories to show how to partner with your teen to insure they drive safely. Her true stories include three accidents caused by her teens and weren't fatal, give Susan credibility. Accidents happen. This short book, full of suggestions on how to relate to your teen positively and avoid alienating him or her, may prevent accidents, show your teenagers that you expect them to drive responsibly, and possibly prevent a fatal accident. Susan recommends the use of family meetings to set up a mutually respectful relationship for life with your teenager, which may influence him or her to follow the safe driving habits you will teach and model. Modeling the safe driving habits is more powerful than talking about them. Susan encourages parents to talk about teen accidents published in the media to promote awareness and prevent accidents. Readers will learn how to use encouragement - how to notice what you like to get more of it, instead of being critical, sarcastic or complaining. This short, to-the-point guide on how to encourage teens to learn safe driving habits teaches parents how to take a positive attitude and be a good role model to promote safe driving. Much is at stake with new drivers. The rate of accidents among teenage drivers newly licensed is higher than the rate of any other age group. At the end of the book is a one page Teen Safe Driving Contract, another tool to raise awareness and promote communication with teens that driving has life and death consequences.

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